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...race is not open to any young man with stout legs, strong lungs and a fondness for an energetic vacation at someone else's expense. Entrants must all have proved their mettle in other major contests. The 1934 field is composed of five national teams-France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Spain-Switzerland - of eight men each, and 20 independents (les isoles). Since the war Belgians have won the race six times, Frenchmen five times, an Italian twice, a Luxembourger twice...
...Stout-hearted Mme Elzire Dionne, with eleven offspring, holds no record for prolificness. One recorded woman produced 59 children in 27 labors (twins, triplets, quadruplets). Another bore 30 children in 22 years by her first husband, 14 in three years by her second husband (triplets, quintuplets and sextuplets). Noteworthy was Dr. Mary Austin, Civil War nurse, one of whose sisters bore 41 children, another 26. Dr. Austin herself bore 13 twins, 6 triplets-total...
...friends that all big businessmen who visit him have only one threadbare suggestion to offer: ''Restore confidence!" That hoary cry rang frequently through the Chamber last week but never more loudly than from the Chamber's president under Herbert Clark Hoover. Silas Hardy Strawn, a stout Republican pillar, spoke on security regulation, a subject which ranked a close second to NRA as the Chamber's chief interest. The hard-bitten Chicago lawyer refused to admit that he was a Roosevelt wolf-crier but his speech was shot with such phrases as "hysterical legislation . . . unbearable...
...courtesy runner. Frank surveyed the occupants of the Andover dugout in an attempt to decide which of the subs would be easiest to catch off bases. Right in the middle of the bench sat a youth weighing upwards of 200 pounds. "Easy out," Frank decided. When the stout one was safely located on first, the Andover captain remarked, "Oh, by the way, that chap can do the 100 in 10 seconds flat...
...certain young tutor, it is reported, was touring England with some confreres. With these colleagues he lunched at Dr. Johnson's tavern. There they partook liberally of stout, and after their imbitions, they proceeded to that ancient church, St. Clement's Dane. Before the high altar they prayed for Abbott Lawrence Lowell and for Harvard. The prayers of the unrighteous avail...